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Insio'a today Last Ticturs EStow: Family films aren't as popular as they used to be -p. 8 sbfoskan thursdsy, november 4f 1976 vol. 100 no. 33 lincoln, nebreska Leb help Ofojpraheinsive stydaots to cohimyoicove li u By Sharon Armstrong Students who suffer from anxiety when faced with a possible communication situation can be helped, accord ing to Speech Prof. William Seiler. Seiler said students experiencing this anxiety find themselves wanting to avoid communication situations. This condition is know as communication apprehension. - A Systematic Desensitization Lab was set up at UNL last spring to help students with communication apprehension. Seiler said the lab is successful with about' 80 per cent of the students who participate. "Communication apprehension is not stage fright," Seiler said. "It appears when a person sees no rewards in' the communication process." The negative aspects out weigh the positive, he said. The lab consists of three one-hour sessions in which students listen to tapes about muscle relaxation. Rest difficult "Most Americans don't know how to relax," Seiler said. This is the first stsp in reducing the anxiety of communication apprehension. Students in the labs, which are set up in Burnett Hall classrooms, relax in lounge chairs. However, outside noise sometimes detracts from the atmosphere, Seiler said. "If we had more money, we could improve these conditions," he said. The lab was begun on a $2,000 grant from the Teaching and Learning Center. Seiler said that because there isn't enough money to hire aides, the labs are conducted by volunteers. Most of t labs are staffed by graduate students in communica tion. "The communication lab is a service to help students," Seiler said. He said 20 per cent of the students tested during the first week of the semester in Speech 109 classes had high apprehension levels. Fear measured The apprehension levels are measured by a Personal Report of Communication Apprehension, a survey design ed by James McCroskey, a West Virginia University speech profsssor. . In this test, students respond to 25 questions on a one to five scale. Seller saal that students ranking y J or aoove i . i! . - 1 -1- Tt,:.....C1 aic cncourageu iu paiutipaic 111 uic uu. ima jtai jj- vui of 120 students labeled as highly apprehensive participat ed in the lab. - The test is available for anyone, Seiler said, and students whose tests show they are highly apprehensive may take part in the lab. Selection slowed; responses put of? W tTff 1 f r" - HJ!J A, tl 1 99 their search for a new NU president, but did not expect any further progress before Tuesday's elections, accord ing to regent board chairman James Idoylan of Omaha. Moylan saM tome candidates for NU President D. B. Vamer's position had been contacted, but no answers had been received. "Anybody on the list certainly would not accept the position when so many of the regents were up for re election," Mojinn seid. "Candidates can lock at regents pad records and nave a good indication of what they (the candidate) could expect," Idoyiaa add. - AH four repeat incumbents cp for relection were re elected. This might "positively aiTcct a presidential candid ztth derieion. Idovlan said, but there "are many more toes than that. 1 can say what effect it wH hare." - The regents axe hoping to have an answer and a new president within a month, or at least by the first of the ycar.tloylansaM. Seiler said communication apprehension affects class choice, class performance and job choice. He said research has proven that people with high levels of communication apprehension choose certain kinds of jobs. Tor example, he said in the teaching pro fession, highly apprehensive people usually choose elementary educaiton while people with low apprehension choose higher levels of education. He said many people who have high apprenhension levels go into science fields because they undergo a minimum of communica tion with other people. Persons with high levels of communication apprehen sion also tend to take lecture-oriented classes rather than discussion classes, he said. Because students with high rates of communication apprehension don't speak out in class, Seiler said, instructors often think they aren't capable of answering. He said it has nothing to do with the students' intelligence levels, but they are often penalized for it. J & 7 0 r MOO Photo try Kmt'm H&f Sue Anderson, extension division visual arts coordinator, gets a swine Cu injection from Dick Eerncni, an em ploye with the State Health Dept Many students say the process doesalt ksrt, but Anderson seems to be bracks herself for pain. Flu vaccinations given to 1 About 1,800 persons have been vaccinated against swine flu on the UNL campus. Gary Martin, University Health Center associate dir ector, estimated that 300 persons have received the vac cine at SeHeck residence hall, 290 at the East Campus Student Activities dig-, COG at Harper-Shrarnm-Sinith residence halls and 440 persons at Ahcl-Sandoz residence halls. In addition, 250 persons in the high-ride category have received the vaccine in the Nebra&a Union. tlartia said he coulint predict how many persons would receive the vaccine. Each Jbcation is equipped to handle about 800 persons an hour, he said. Dr. Robert Fox, on duty at the liarper-Schamm-Smh location, said he expected a maximum of between 1 JDO0 and 1,500 persons. - Most of the students interviewed at the clinics sail they diint want the shot, but agreed that they didn't want to take the ri of getting swine flu. "it's always good to use precaution,' said UNL junior Deb DZlon. Semor Kob Gadeken said he got the shot because he didn't have time to be down with the flu. The shot is better than taking the ride, he said. Students also sgreed that the shot didn't hurt. 1 was scared to death, but it didn't hurt that much," senior Carol Neth said. She added that she thought the ua cssd to give the shots is better than a regtdar needle. Dave Hegsr, a junior, was at the clinic with a friend. - Hs edd he didn't plan to get inoculated because he diint . .think the shots were necessary for persons his age who are healthy. - . The immunization dinks WO continue on the UNL campus through Sunday. There are two types of clinics; one for h!gh-ri people (those ever 45 or with chronic illness) 2nd another for the rest of the people. The last clinic is from 1:30 to 4:30 pjn. Sunday in the Union and the East Campus Student Activities Hdg. Sikyia: I ransporiaiion problems remain unsolved Lincoln's transportation problems and prcncs to solve them have been the same for its last four years because even or ciht departments are in direct conflict," according to City Council-nan Bob Elkyta. Slkyta and CcunciL-naa Steve Cock have promoted a atIc, separate tranorta tioa department to cat bureaucracy and solve city transportation prebkrns. llzyot lldcn Doosalis, actirg on a Council request, issued a report hst week string that she is eppesed to a new de- Doclls r--ested that any ccnioli dstba slould be done within the City IVilkV.'oiks Dept. Eiyta sail he has been promoting the idea for more than a year, and has made visits and written to cities for information concrmisg transportation. - One director needed - llairg transportation under one head isat an unusual gpproach," he said. In lincoln, the transt system is under the finance director, the Centrum is under urban development, parking meters axe ma by the police, and so on. Ye donlt want to add new positions.but we wsnt to te people who are current ly working cn these protkms and hzrs just cne person direct them." System (LTS) is running on a deficit, but the firm managing LTS is not at fault. "It's a lack of iidership, and that's not their fault," he said. "We're working cn more parking spaces and more. bus riders at the same time, and that doemt mike sense. The problem is with the over all system, not LTS." Projects tmCniiied Slkyta cited unfinished projects down town, such as parking problems and no bus shelters, as examples cf problems that have faced Lmcolnites for the past four years.1 Tecple lost confidence because we didnt give them what they wanted, and I really can't blame them," he said. "The only thing LTS has done is buy new buses. There are still no shelters, they still are changing routes, and yet there is no bus stop at Lincoln General (Uoepital), cr no bus tratlic eerjnea to taiie tne pease trailic SIk)ta emphasized that additional jobs are not needed to "solve tlie probbms. "Ve can keep peirg consultants il we want, but well only solve tie pxciltms if the Council and the msycr can ? -c;3 that adding people iuit the anr'.-c:, z..:i plifying the zpproadi h," tm snldJ"